I Had a Promise Made at Dawn

I Had a Promise Made at Dawn Book Description Romain Gary, aka Émile Ajar, one of the most extraordinary and productive writers of French literature, who has won the prestigious Goncourt award twice, tries to stand alone in his masterpiece, I Had a Promise Made at Dawn, which he blends his enlightened consciousness with a deep sense of humor and writes in a poetic language. It tells about the relentless struggle of an immigrant woman who struggles to raise her only son and prepare him for life while working, the great energy she mobilizes for him to reach a glorious destiny, and the tremendous effort her son makes to transfer "the reflection of the naive dreams of that woman he loves so much" into his life. In this important work, which includes sections from the life of Gary, a resilient child who endures all the cruelty of the world in the compassionate arms he takes shelter in, where life and death, poverty and sublimity walk side by side at every stage, everything from the narrator's military and diplomatic career to his literary success and human relations is depicted by an unshakable, emotional, It is shaped under the exciting but at the same time unbearable mother's love. This bedside book, which is the novel of the promise given by Gary at the dawn of his life, who got tired of struggling with his self and strutted to the literary authorities with the persona he created, is a starting point from which all the author's other fictions can be followed... (From the Promotional Bulletin)